Encephalopathy Articles & Analysis
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Liver regeneration post-transplantation is limited and most patients suffer from long-term complications such as abdominal compartment syndrome, hepatic encephalopathy, and fibrosis. These complications can be treated using supportive care and medications. ...
The Michel Goedert team and the Sjors Scheres team at the Molecular Biology Laboratory of the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, witnessed the use of cryo-EM to dissect tau filament (tau) structures in tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease, primary age-related tauopathy (PART), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Pick's disease, and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) ...
When the level of bilirubin is high in the body, the blood and tissue appear yellow in color. Encephalopathy Failure of liver function leads to ammonia and other toxins accumulate in the body which ultimately results in cognitive dysfunction that may even lead to coma. ...
The violence of the game, coupled with recent studies that have shown how prevalent chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is in retired players, has brought a lot of attention to the sport. ...
Much uncertainty surrounds transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) through blood and blood derived products. A first expert elicitation with 14 experts was conducted in March 2008, and a second re–elicitation involving 11 experts was held a year later in March 2009. ...
Much uncertainty surrounds transmission of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) through blood and blood derived products. A first expert elicitation with 14 experts was conducted in March 2008, and a second re-elicitation involving 11 experts was held a year later in March 2009. ...
Despite the widespread occurrence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in European countries in the late 1990s and the European Commission Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) report that cattle in Spain were likely infected with BSE agent, Spanish authorities continued to consider their country BSE-free. ...
The prevalence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Nordic countries is low. To date, there have been 14 BSE cases in domestic cattle in Denmark, three cases in Danish cattle exported to other countries, one case in Finland, one in Sweden, and no cases in Norway. ...
Large imports of cattle and meat and bone meal from countries potentially affected by bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) may have led to the BSE agent entering Belgium, and the occurrence of domestic BSE cases. ...
Imports of animal feeds containing contaminated meat and bone meal (MBM) from the UK and other countries in the late 1980s and early 1990s was identified as the major risk factor for an increased risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) entering into the Netherlands. The first BSE case was confirmed in March 1997. ...
To date, China has witnessed no domestic cases of either bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human version of BSE. ...
In 1990, Switzerland became the first country in mainland Europe to report a native case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), despite a low level of live bovine and meat and bone meal (MBM) imports from the UK, the country generally recognised as the origin of the epidemic. ...
Italy experienced two imported cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in 1994 and viewed the disease as a 'foreign' problem. ...
To date, Russia has not reported any cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in its own territory. ...
These countries reported their first domestic bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in 2001-2002. Several national and European Union legislative measures were adopted by veterinary officials to reduce external and internal risk factors which limited the spread of the BSE within national herds. ...
The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis of the last two decades has shown that proper interaction of risk assessment, risk management and risk communication is essential. ...